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Loading... Spenser's Faerie Queen and the Reading of Womenby Caroline McManus
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Linking The Faerie Queene with early modern conduct manuals, romances, dedicatory epistles, and devotional literature, McManus examines the poem's depiction of women's interpretive strategies and argues that female readers were expected to exercise considerable autonomy as they endorsed, adapted, or resisted the texts that sought to fashion them as "chaste, silent and obedient. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)821.3Literature English & Old English literatures English poetry 1558-1625 Elizabethan periodLC ClassificationRatingAverage: No ratings.Is this you?Become a LibraryThing Author. |